Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Gorrell

I think it has to be looked upon as a play to get new buyers in the franchise.

Charles Biderman

Historically, every year that companies were net buyers of shares, as far back as we have data, the market has gone up. This year the market has gone up much less than it should have.

Richard Cripps

I think it's more a result of a fear of buyers being left behind.

Kate Warne

I think it's just carry over from yesterday. People are still very nervous about what's happening in the technology sector with earnings warnings. There's clearly some buyers stepping in today.

Katherine Styponias

It is possible that other financial buyers show interest, though we think given the leverage likely required by an acquisition and the lack of a clear exit strategy, it would be difficult to justify the purchase.

Bob Goodman

I think were seeing buyers sitting back and looking to see what happens over the next several months, even the next year,

Wayne Norris

I think buyers are getting a little hesitant.

Andy Boyd

If you look at surveys about buying priorities right now, fuel economy ranks sixteenth. For Honda buyers, its fourteenth. Only 2 percent of Honda buyers even think of fuel economy at all. It's not even on the radar. A fuel hike might get it on radar, but it probably won't make it item one, two, three of four. They see the larger vehicles meeting other needs and even with $2.50 a gallon gas, they're not going to necessarily give it up.

Robert Whiting

Instead of bidding on offices and retail properties in Los Angeles, the leveraged buyers will consider Phoenix or Dallas, where the cap rates are higher.

Gary Bauer

I'll be dead before condo prices exceed single-family because of the fact of where we are.

Caroline Auza

The condo market is going very well here in Tucson. Prices are escalating, and tenants have a great opportunity.

Ed Wolverton

The empties have the resources. They want to own and they want convenience as the downtown redevelops. We had nothing condo until Grant Telegraph. It was very high-end, and it sold out, proving the market for that segment of empty nesters.

Jim Peters

The frenzied and speculative nature of the condo market during the summer months has now cooled down to a steady and sustained period of growth that bodes well for the future.

RL Brown

Condo conversion is rapidly running its very short course.

Glenn Crellin

Take downtown Seattle for example, where there seems to be condo projects springing out of the ground everywhere. The same thing's happening in downtown Spokane.

Al Fernandez

It was just so crazy, the housing market then. People were saying, 'Get in on this condo because in three months it's going to go up $100,000.

Thomas McConnell

This condo hotel thing -- those are really starting to pop up all over the place." ()

Mark Obrinsky

This may reflect the widely predicted cooling of the condo market in some parts of the country.

George Touart

What we went through is exactly the same as what you're facing. It's just more widespread there. Ivan hit three counties here and Katrina hit three states there.

Pam Iorio

I think we'll look at any high ground, ... It may not be where people wind up for the long haul. But, yes, I think we have to look to our neighboring county -- all of our neighboring counties -- that are inland and away from water.

Greg Taylor

Hopefully the state can work out a system soon that more equitably distributes education resources in our state, something desperately needed by low wealth counties like Bladen,

Carolyn Williams

He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituents about what is on their mind.

Peggy Harrell

I know that Hunt and Wise counties have had widespread grassfires. I don't think that Plano has been affected, thank goodness.

John Cavacini

The issue before the West Virginia Legislature is an issue of county option elections -- should voters of particular counties decide?

Tommy Thompson

The counties that are losing jobs and they are so poor simply don't have the money to compete. In the piedmont they're paying teachers bonuses to teach. In the eastern part of the state, they're lucky to find teacher willing to live here.

Mufi Hannemann

It's a state issue, state problem and I think they need to be proactive about fixing it before the counties come forward,

Andy Pick

We are looking to get counties to play their young England players earlier, and the first reports from the counties are that it is working well. It also helps us to prepare in a better fashion.

Tom Baker

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

Carl Herrman

What we would like is that people will demand more. We're hoping to work together again.

Bjorn Hanson

What we've seen is demand growing at three and a half to four and a half percent in some recent years. This year it will only grow about two and a half percent.

Joe Mauer

Having the first year of going through that and getting to know these guys, that's a lot of information, ... It's not only a physical demand on you, but mentally as well.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Mariella Frostrup

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.

Marty Booker

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

Andrew Grove

I don't expect the end demand to snap back, ... We are in this state for some period of time.

Martin Buber

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

Louis Armstrong

We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures.

Teun Draaisma

Profit growth is going to slow down dramatically. It's not a great level to be entering the equity market.

Nikolay Davydenko

Entering into semi-finals is a big chance. I think it's great for me because if you get some chance, you need to take this chance.

Thomas Perls

If we're entering a time when people can improve their health, then it's important to be improving your wealth as well. If you're going to live into your 90s in good health, then you're going to need money.

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Rodney Carney

I couldn't live here. The real estate is too high.

Joe Montana

I really took the lead on putting together the real estate fund-to-funds, ... Real estate was always interesting to me.

Lorraine Bracco

I like real estate because I am the boss.

Holly Brubach

I'm really a novice about being a real estate developer.

Xiao Zhuoji

The fees and high profits have pushed real estate running up.

Christie Wilson

As we see some real estate markets slow down in other parts of the country, it's encouraging to know that our market is not only healthy, but remains quite vibrant.

Susan Isaacs

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

Jaimie Ross

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

Clark Yingst

I suspect 'Well we're in a directionless market' is likely to persist until we get a better read on how much higher rates will go.

Fred Powell

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.

Dave Curry

There is nobody here at all. Ian Thorpe pulling out obviously has a lot higher significance.

Bradley Hunter

When home prices are so much higher than median incomes, it makes for an unhealthy economy.

Tom Daschle

We've got to rise to a higher level,

Josh Bernoff

I thought they would start higher and work their way down. The problem is, you can't go up.

Sarah MacQuiddy

I think we'll have to push the higher ed piece.

Tong Lixin

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

John Rother

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

Andrew Steer

We're now moving into the really big permanent housing phase.

Elizabeth Watson

We mainly need housing you know. We're trying to find somewhere to live.

Jay Speer

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

John Prescott

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Larry Wachtel

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we get numbers on industrial production and housing and big reports from Intel, Coke, Johnson & Johnson -- maybe that can turn us around.

Joel Naroff

Not even Mother Nature can slow the housing market.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Bill Graham

Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Bob Stoops

If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.

Joe Panetta

The increases we're seeing are not just with 4-year-olds. We're seeing increases throughout the system.

Andy Roberts

Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Bill Nelson

And in the second year it was doubled again. That's not realistic today. But 5 percent a year increases are not going to get us to the moon.

Rick Santelli

Every October there's always increases or drop-offs, and I think this year will be no exception.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Paul Newsome

Rate increases is one of a number of questions that personal lines companies, like Allstate, will face.

Donald Schneider

I think the new discoveries are going to indicate that Pluto should not really be called a planet.

J. Hoover

The (final) score doesn't indicate how much mat wrestling took place tonight. St. Joe's kept everything close. There were some really tight matches.

David Buik

The futures indicate a lower start with profit takers and scalpers to the fore.

Shawn Boyer

Don't be too specific about what you want to do. Indicate your interests, but let people know you're willing to try out different opportunities.

Sonny Jackson

All signs indicate that this was a suicide.

Sgt. Reynolds

There is nothing to indicate that this was a stressful situation.

Peter Johnson

We are trying to indicate we will be somewhere towards the middle of that 340 to 380 (million pound) range.

Kyle Crookes

I don't know if those (statistics) indicate of how well he threw.

Tony Ryall

It does indicate that we need to rethink New Zealand's anti-smoking campaign.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Larry Wachtel

I think the market has done quite well in what is supposed to be the worst month of the year, but at some point you're going to run into an overbought condition,

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Kyle Whittingham

I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Steve Capps

He took over this project, pushed Jef out.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.